Category: rowing

Masters Cruises to Paralympic Gold in Hand-Cycle Time Trial

A thought recently struck Paralympic gold medalist Oksana Masters: What would young Oksana, the one who shuffled between Ukrainian orphanages, think of this grown-up version? Young Oksana was always resilient, determined and headstrong—qualities that helped her persevere through years in an orphanage and with birth defects believed to be from the aftermath of Chernobyl, the…


Texas Women Win NCAA Rowing Championship

SARASOTA, Fla.—The Texas women took first with a time of 6:17.387 in the varsity eights grand final, and the Longhorns won their first national title in the NCAA rowing championship on Sunday. Texas, Stanford, and Washington finished in a three-way tie with 126 points in the overall standings, with the tie broken by the varsity…